I just try and learn to be a good husband and be a good father before I am a good rock star. That means saying no to certain things that go with the business.
ALAN COOPERAs these machines leak into every corner of our lives, they will annoy us, infuriate us, and even kill a few of us.
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In other words, humans have special instincts that tell them how to behave around other sentient beings.
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We seem to be keeping old fans and are bringing on new fans that are teenagers. I think that is amazing.
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The things like that we could fight about, we really don’t. We are pretty lucky for that.
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Keep it simple: In general, interfaces should use simple geometric forms, minimal contours, and a restricted color palette comprised primarily of less-saturated or neutral colors balanced with a few high contrast accent colors that emphasize important information.
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No matter how beautiful, no matter how cool your interface, it would be better if there were less of it.
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Just how do I design if not with prototyping? An excellent question. The short answer is ‘on paper.’
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It has been said that the great scientific disciplines are examples of giants standing on the shoulders of other giants.
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I’m a huge believer in putting music out as quickly as early as possible.
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To our human minds, computers behave less like rocks and trees than they do like humans, so we unconsciously treat them like people.
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Form follows function straight to hell.
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You can get spiritual things out of books and stories and they have nothing to do with religion.
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Because computers have memories, we imagine that they must be something like our human memories, but that is simply not true.
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Define what the product will do before you design how the product will do it.
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A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic.
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I just like so many different kinds of music that I like experimenting. I don’t want to keep making the same record over and over and over.
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